Two things:

A) I’m not mad. I was just writing about my personal experience.

B) Many if not most internet connected devices in the home require connectivity for *full* functionality but not for base operating.

Nest is a good example. Nest requires Internet to remotely access it, to pull weather, and to pull updates, but you can still adjust the temperature of your house if they shut the service down. The same goes for most of the other Internet connected home devices and services I have. Sonos works without Internet albeit severely diminished functionality.

Naive of me perhaps but I assumed that like most gadgets it had SOME local functionality. I didn’t expect that the Internet was required for the local device to respond to a motion detection event. Revolv scans your local network for IP accessible devices so it does do some local network stuff.

Anyways, my point is that I’m not a total idiot and since I don’t have access to the inner workings of the gadget or the app itself, I had no way of validating my assumptions.

Would you assume that your Internet connected fridge requires internet to cool your drinks or would you assume that an Internet outage would mean an absence of some functionality?